I've been desperatly craving sweets for the past few months. I even got to the extreme situation of eating a soup spoon full of sugar. I've heard that losing weight, drinking a lot of water and urinating frequently are diabetes symptoms, but I haven't been experiencing neither of them. Other than the craving, everything is normal.
Thank you in advance!
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Actually it can be. If your blood sugar is very high and you have untreated diabetes, you can crave sugar and candy because your body is unable to use the sugar this is circulating in your blood, even though there's a lot of it. Your cells are literally starving for sugar.
For the months just before my diagnosis I craved sugar and chocolates all the time.
Most type 2 diabetics do NOT get symptoms until they've been diabetics for up to 8 years. That means 8 years of untreated high blood sugar.
Because you are having these cravings, I recommend that you get tested asap.
See the links on my blog for symptoms of type2 and type 2.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NbDgUzQhfrJTXdmg.DfXS.Tx
On the symptoms for type 2, note that it says you may experience NO symptoms at all.
Please do not ignore these cravings. Do yourself a favour and get tested right away.
Ask for an HbA1c and also a Glucose Tolerance Test.
This gives your doctor a complete picture of what's going on.
A simple fasting glucose test can miss the diagnosis of diabetes. (This happened to me). I asked for the HbA1c test, and my blood sugar was sky high. The combination of the two tests is more accurate than either one alone.
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